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You may be asking yourself, “Where is
the instrumental post-rock loving Gabbo at?”, and I would reply,
“Right here!”, and I've got a new record to recommend. Yes, obe's
(that's “Orders of the British Empire”) 'Rebuild', a post-rock EP
filled to the brim with atmosphere as much as it is hard hitting, and
it's plenty hard. The atmosphere is where the guitar gets let out to
play, with bluesy riffs expanded out into the ether. These slower
sections and all of “Roundabouts” are a little gloomy, especially
when it's seemingly just keyboards building upon themselves with a
drum lick or guitar note fluttering through the gray. The faster,
sections are technical showpieces for the wall of guitars coming out
of your speakers. These may twinge with metal's ferocity, but it's
not haphazardly ferocious. No, the band showcases their artistry in
these sections by keeping things technical, but under control. The
music is well crafted so that everything fits nicely in place: hard
rock melting away into low key post-rock tinkering without losing a
beat, and vice-versa. The slower atmospheric sections gradually
building to the explosive thunder of the hard rock with a natural
progression. The band's bandcamp page lists 'cinematic' as one of
their tags, and I would say that description fits quite well..To my
brain it sounds a bit like the soundtrack for 28 Days Later, if Aaron
Turner (of Isis) had been involved in the song writing or Friday
Night Lights had music as hard as the hits in the film. You might
hear something completely different. There is really only one
negative thing that stuck out for me on this EP, and it's the
drumming on the opening track “Rebuild with Gunpowder”. The
drumming in parts of the song sound out of time with the rest of the
instruments, and while it may have been intentional to give the song
a stuttering, progressive rhythm, that rhythm is difficult to listen
to, sounding so disjointed as it does. The drumming is superb on the
rest of the EP, and I would be hesitant to think one rough spot is
enough to derail listening to this record.
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